Internet is a wondrous tool and I use it, (ain't I a fool?)for you dear pupils, who wish to speak the Queen's English.
Well, maybe not but at least, if asked whether you speak English or not,
don't say: "I do not!"
WE'VE JUST COME BACK FROM THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD !
I'll post some pics in August and for now, a video sent by a handiccaped friend.
Enjoy the summer (even if it doesn't look like summer at all here in France!
Je ne marche pas, je roule - wideo Clip musical : l'histoire d'un jeune homme se rendant à un premier rendez-vous amoureux ... un parcours semé d'embûches.
Time for a break. I'll soon be in Venice.No time for blogging... although i might find a cybercafé overthere. To get some nice pictures from that beautiful city you can go there: http://venicedailyphoto.blogspot.com/
You've probably heard about the prehistorical museum that exhibits men with dinosaures. But you might not have heard of Dr Dino: excerpt from Wikipedia:
Kent Hovind, is an American evangelist and Young Earth creationist. He is most famous for creation science seminars, many of which have been taped and widely distributed. His seminars, which often make use of humor, aim to convince listeners to believe in creationism and to reject evolution. Hovind's views are criticized by the scientific community and even some fellow young earth creationist organizations like Answers In Genesis (AIG) criticize Hovind for "persistently us[ing] discredited or false arguments".
Hovind is currently serving a ten-year term in Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield in Edgefield, South Carolina for 58 tax offenses, obstructing federal agents and related charges.
Hovind established the Creation Science Evangelism Ministry in 1989 and, before his incarceration, frequently argued for Young Earth creationism in his talks at private schools and churches, at university debates, and on radio and television broadcasts.
And here is a fun (though quite rude video)criticizing him. This video contains a spelling mistake. Will you find it and post it in the comments? I mean WHO WILL?
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/tax/article1996735.eceread the rest of the article by Tom Bawden from Times Onlinehere
Voc: affluent means wealthy, rich, with easy access to water/food and shelter/energy/education/... ... and we keep complaining... (on n'arrête pas de se plaindre!)
